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Your Papers, Please

Monday, April 7th, 2008

 

 

Looking for a toy to get your kid acclimated to post-REAL ID America?

From the product description:

Pull over! The traffic police have blocked the road to all vehicles. Wearing realistic uniforms and printed emergency vests, they have set up a roadblock with 4 warning lights and 2 pylons. They are also equipped with a map, stop sign, and pistols.

What, no Breathalyzer?

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This entry was posted on Monday, April 7th, 2008 at 10:20 am by Radley Balko and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

17 Responses to “Your Papers, Please”

  1. #1 |  Joe |  April 7th, 2008 at 10:28 am

    Or tasers?

  2. #2 |  concernedcitizen |  April 7th, 2008 at 10:30 am

    $49.99?

    C’mon, most Playmobil stuff like that is around $10.

  3. #3 |  Nando |  April 7th, 2008 at 10:45 am

    Joe, you beat me to it.

  4. #4 |  Joe |  April 7th, 2008 at 10:58 am

    Concerned Citizen…

    $49.99…covers the costs of benefits, retirement, “Stay out of Jail” free cards, etc. usually borne by the local taxpayers.

    Perhaps there’s a follow-up Play-Mobil set coming…”SUCKERS/TAXPAYERS/CRIMINALS” and other assorted “low-life” characters, you know the type, folks with a light-bulbs out, an expired license…

    OTW, how else can the kids play without some who can be ensnared & abused at checkpoints?

  5. #5 |  David |  April 7th, 2008 at 11:05 am

    Since when do cops have shaggy hair and C. Everett Koop beards?

  6. #6 |  Jacob Tomaw |  April 7th, 2008 at 11:12 am

    I think the Amazon customers have taged this product appropriately.

  7. #7 |  Pokerwolf |  April 7th, 2008 at 11:26 am

    What’s the over/under on the amount of time that some parent is going to freak out because this toy has pistols in it?

  8. #8 |  David |  April 7th, 2008 at 11:53 am

    They won’t. It’s OK for police and soldiers to have weapons.

  9. #9 |  Danno49 |  April 7th, 2008 at 12:00 pm

    Does anyone else find the mosque in the background a bit out of place?

  10. #10 |  johncjackson |  April 7th, 2008 at 12:28 pm

    I will probably see this in Target for 5.99 soon enough.

  11. #11 |  scott |  April 7th, 2008 at 1:21 pm

    Pistols! Oh Heavan forbid. Isn’t that POLITICALLY INCORRECT?

    Oops, sorry, its ok to have authoritarian figures of the state armed, just not mere mortals like “the people”.

    Jeez Louise – I just saw the Mosque that johncjackson pointed out.

    Now I am really scared.

  12. #12 |  Windypundit |  April 7th, 2008 at 2:27 pm

    Maybe the road block is to catch these guys.

  13. #13 |  chsw |  April 7th, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    Not to worry. The officers will not be using profiling to catch terrorists.

    chsw

  14. #14 |  Leshrac |  April 7th, 2008 at 2:53 pm

    No drug dog?

  15. #15 |  BobG |  April 7th, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    Where are the rubber gloves for body cavity searches?

  16. #16 |  concernedcitizen |  April 7th, 2008 at 3:30 pm

    Of course, Playmobil is known for somewhat inappropriate toys anyway. And have we forgotten the TSA Checkpoint Playmobil?

  17. #17 |  GU |  April 8th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    The Cops don’t say “please.”

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